[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 34 (Thursday, March 21, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E434]
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RECOGNIZING THE MANY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE SIGNED A ``PEACE PLEDGE'' TO 
                     STOP THE SPREAD OF WAR TO IRAQ

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 20, 2002

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, more than 3,000 individuals from 40 
countries and 48 states have signed the Campaign of Conscience Peace 
Pledge. ``I support peace for Iraq. I grant permission to use my name 
and city publicly as an opponent of the ongoing economic and bombing 
war on Iraq, and of any escalation of that war.'' This Peace Pledge has 
been endorsed by the American Friends Service Committee, Arab-American 
Anti-Discrimination Committee, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Education 
for Peace in Iraq Center, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Lutheran Peace 
Fellowship, Voices in the Wilderness, and Washington Physicians for 
Social Responsibility.
  A state breakdown of signatories is below with a representative 
sample from Ohio.


       Priscilla Smith, Akron; Helen Thompson, Akron; Gary Blaine, 
     Akron; Sara Cutlip, Akron; Tom Gentry, Jr., Akron; John 
     Howell, Athens; Lynda Nyce, Bluffton; Jean Temple, Brunswick; 
     Amy Spangler, Chillicothe; William Joiner, Cincinnati; 
     Cynthia Maxey, Cleveland; Patti Flanagin, Cleveland Heights; 
     Brenda Joyner, Cleveland Heights; Francis Chiappa, Cleveland 
     Hts.; Mark Chupp, Cleveland Hts.; Melissa Bragg, Columbus; 
     Connie Hammond, Columbus; Morton Saunders, Jr., Copley;
       Nathan Ruggles, Cuyahoga Falls; Robert Williams, Cuyahoga 
     Falls; Christina Irene, Dayton; Jana Schroeder, Dayton; 
     Ramona Nash, Dublin; Marion Kim, East Canton; Sarah Ile, 
     Eaton; Joan Slonczewski, Gambier; Margaret Banning, Gambier; 
     Susan Klein, Girard; William Nichols, Granville; Mike Pesa, 
     Kent; Russell Andrews, Jr., Kent; Brad Clinehens, Maplewood; 
     Michall Zabib, Massillom; Susan Mcgarvey, Nashport; Jane 
     McCullam, Newbury;
       Diana Roose, Oberlin; Sadie Taylor, Oberlin; Richard 
     Taylor, Oberlin; Geraldine S. McNabb, Oberlin; Ryan Van 
     Lenning, Oxford; Patrick G. Coy, Peninsula; Erin Nash, Shade; 
     Lydia Kuttab Brenneman, St. Marys; Donna Schall, Stow; Sharon 
     Havelak, Sylvania; Matthew Wallace, Toledo; Nandor 
     Szentkiralyi, Toledo; Robert Gibson, Warren; Elizabeth 
     Gibson, Warren; Heather Brutz, Warrensville Heights; Kyle 
     Kunst, Wooster; Rev. Richard Judy, Youngstown.


                            State Breakdown

       Alaska--8,
       Alabama--8,
       Arkansas--3,
       Arizona--49,
       California--236,
       Colorado--73,
       Connecticut--34,
       District of Columbia--20,
       Delaware--5,
       Florida--66,
       Georgia--26,
       Hawaii--4,
       Idaho--8,
       Illinois--115,
       Indiana--32,
       Iowa--39,
       Kansas--11,
       Kentucky--13,
       Louisiana--7,
       Maine--20,
       Maryland--74,
       Massachusetts--160,
       Michigan--61,
       Minnesota--38,
       Mississippi--2,
       Missouri--46,
       Montana--7,
       North Carolina--86,
       North Carolina,
       North Dakota,
       Nebraska--12,
       New Hampshire--30,
       New Jersey--62,
       New Mexico--18,
       Nevada--9,
       New York--214,
       Ohio--91,
       Oklahoma--7,
       Oregon--32,
       Pennsylvania--213,
       Puerto Rico--1,
       Rhode Island--18,
       South Carolina--9,
       South Dakota--4,
       Tennessee--11,
       Texas--74,
       Utah--4,
       Virginia--35,
       Vermont--20,
       Washington--402,
       Wisconsin--56,
       West Virginia--1,
       Unspecified--92.

       

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